Critic Score
Based on 9 reviews
2001 Ratings: #246 / 300
User Score
Based on 69 ratings
2001 Ratings: #414
September 24, 2001 / Release Date
LP / Format
Warp / Label
Vincent GalloProducer
lo-fi
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Critic Reviews

80
Alternative Press

Songs that are originless and tragically expectant; meditative and uneasy ... placing us in the midst of something ... we never knew we needed.

70
NME

A collection of incongruously delicate and wistful songs featuring vaguely jazzy inflections and Gallo's tremulous tenor. Confused? You will be.

70
Uncut
Strangely moving.
60
Rolling Stone
A lovely work of spare, ambient music that recalls Chicago post-rock artists such as Jim O'Rourke or the Sea and Cake.
40
The Guardian

It's proggy, inept, embarrassing and pretentious. In fact, it's terrible.

chaz
70

I really don't know what to think of it. I don't love every part of it musically, his voice isn't the greatest and some of the more avant folky parts even kind of turn me away, but there's such a clear beautiful love here that I haven't felt in music in a pretty long time. In songs like A Picture Of Her, I feel like crying but can't really decipher why, and Was has me in that same emotionally vulnerable state despite its extreme minimalism.

what is going on?

Irissssssssssss
88

Recommended by Jade ages ago, but I’ve just now gotten to it. I’ve kinda been holding off since I remember Gallo not exactly being the best person politically, but thankfully there doesn’t seem to be much of that in this album. A lot of it’s just lovey dovey slowcore songs sung in a weird high pitched voice that’s fairly pleasant, and I enjoyed that. A lot of it though reminded me of Bowery Electric’s Beat in the den of it being all weird and hypnotic and ... read more

matscomh
100

had a instagram dm conversation with gallo where he said "butterfly", a new album, was coming out on december but the label dropped it after his angry pro-trump discourse on the platform. such a sadly beautiful man making such sad, beautiful music. hard to understand his sad and ugly shenanigans . guess he's just scared

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